Wednesday Nov 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek -- 1731 SE 10th Ave.
=== Crucible ===
"An Automatic Slicing, Dicing, and Rebooting Test Harness"
with Bryce Harrington
Crucible is a test harness in use at OSDL which utilizes several Perl
modules, along with a mess of bash scripts, to provide a generalized
automated testing system. They use Crucible for testing NFSv4, Linux
CPU and Memory hotplug, Inkscape, Cairo, and GeGL. It coordinates
tests across a collection of different machines of different
architectures; it handles automated power cycling to test-boot new
kernels; it can reimage, capture console logs, etc.; it can coordinate
multi-client/server configurations; it slices; it dices; it'll even CUT
THROUGH A TIN CAN!1!!
Most of the Perl components have been uploaded to CPAN, including one
set of modules for editing/updating different kinds of bootloader
config files, called Linux::Bootloader, another module WWW::PkgFind for
downloading software packages from web or ftp sites, or from
cvs/git/svn, and another set of modules for parsing test output from
different kinds of test programs, called Test::Parser. We've also
recently added a module, Test::Presenter, that employs an XML database
to recombobulate parsed test data into forms that Chart::Graph::Gnuplot
and similar modules can use for making pretty SVG graphs.
more info: http://crucible.sourceforge.net/